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Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs's Liver Transplant
CNet is reporting that the hospital where Apple's CEO reportedly got a liver transplant two months ago has now confirmed the truth of these reports. "Steve Jobs underwent his liver transplant about two months ago at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, the hospital confirmed Tuesday. Jobs, who returned to work Apple's campus in Cupertino, Calif., on Monday after a six-month medical leave, 'is now recovering well and has an excellent prognosis,' according to a statement by Dr. James D. Eason, the program director of the Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute. ... While Eason said the confirmation was being provided with Jobs's approval, he cited patient confidentially in saying that he could not reveal any further information on the specifics of Jobs's surgery."
The asshole "moved" to Tennessee to jump into a different organ transplant queue: 295 vs 1,615 people, and a wait of 48 days vs 306. Not only that, but there are no rules against entering multiple programs- so basically, you could enter every transplant program that would take you (and that you could afford), and virtually guarantee yourself an organ.
MSNBC did a nice job of putting all the facts together. In short: he had a complicating illness that normally would have ruled him out, he had the money to guarantee admittance into transplant program (whereas normal mere mortals are often denied coverage by their insurance companies, and cannot afford the 200K cost).
Oh yeah, and Apple lied to investors and the world: the man had cancer and a failing organ, and they claimed it was a "hormone imbalance." I hope the SEC is already working on this...
Please help metamoderate.
Replying to wipe bad mod. I'm with the mob - Read your own quote.
Excellent, then my drunk dumbass post might serve some purpose. Hopefully my post ends up -1 and the system remembers your equally stupid +1 mod and metamoderation will see to it that you will never get mod points again. It's clear you don't deserve them if you can't read a post before you moderate it.
I've no clue if that's how it works, I've never gotten mod points on this site but metamoderate all the time.
BTW, it's possible someone from that staff leaked that information to the WSJ (since their source was undisclosed) prior to Job's permission.
My work here is dung.
lol, what? That's easily the most antisocial comment I've seen on Slashdot in a while, that's not even funny. Although your signature about death metal on a site named anus.com makes it funny again. Ever considered becoming an hero?
You just got troll'd!
Most people are the ones I see littering, driving like idiots, buying stupid junk, getting drunk and vomiting in my sunroof, etc.
Do you own a Black IROC Z? If so, sorry, I was the one who vomited in your sunroof last week. My bad :(
Yeah, that would be the decade when Jobs was out of Apple
You like OS X and Cocoa? That was the kind of platform that Xerox PARC had developed in the 1970's, only what PARC had was even easier to develop for and better integrated.
Jobs ripped off the appearance and functionality of PARC's systems, but none of the elegant underlying architecture. The result was the Macintosh and its assembly language toolboxes. It gave Apple a quick time to market, driving out of business all the companies with better designs, but left them with a lousy architectural legacy.
Jobs then left and ripped off PARC again, this time with NeXT. NeXT copied more of PARC's software architecture (although he still didn't quite get it right). That then became OS X and Cocoa.
And these days, we have to listen to how Jobs supposedly revolutionized the computer industry. But if Apple hadn't ripped off PARC in the 1980's, we could have had other companies ship the equivalent of OS X and Cocoa in the late 80's/early 90's instead of Apple shipping it a decade later.
That's what you should feel anger at.